Quranic root
طيب
ṭ · y · b
The root denotes what is good, pleasant, pure, wholesome, or otherwise the opposite of khabīth (bad or impure).
Its central orientation extends from sensory and inward pleasantness to purity, lawful and wholesome provision, morally sound persons and deeds, good speech, favorable conditions, and blessed outcome.
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
طَابَ
ṭāba
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To be or become good, pleasant, pure, or wholesome; to be in a favorable state.
Used of persons or states, including the expression طِبْتُمْ in the welcome to the inhabitants of Paradise.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:73word 18
“you have done well”
To be agreeable, acceptable, suitable, or lawful to someone.
Especially in the construction طَابَ لِـ, where what is agreeable or legally available to a person is intended.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:3word 9
“seems suitable”
To become willing, content, or free in mind to relinquish, remit, or grant something.
The construction طَابَتْ نَفْسُهُ بِـ or طِبْنَ لَكُمْ عَنْ expresses willing concession without compulsion.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:4word 6
“they remit”
طَيِّبٌ
ṭayyibun
- Part of speech
- Adjective / substantivized noun
- Quran occurrences
- 16 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Good, pleasant, agreeable to the senses, wholesome, pure, or clean.
Used of food, drink, water, ground, land, and other things whose qualities are pleasant or free from impurity.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:43word 40
“clean”
Quran 2:168word 8
“(and) good”
Lawful, permitted, legitimate, or soundly acquired.
In Quranic contrasts with khabīth, this may describe lawful property, provision, deeds, or other things accepted as legally proper.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:168word 8
“(and) good”
Morally or spiritually good and pure; commendable in persons, deeds, or speech.
This substantivized or attributive use can refer to good persons, good works, and good words, without reducing the sense to physical cleanliness.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:32word 4
“(when they are) pure”
Quran 35:10word 11
“good”
طَيِّبَةٌ
ṭayyibahun
- Part of speech
- Adjective / substantive noun
- Quran occurrences
- 30 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Good, pleasant, pure, or wholesome; a good or agreeable thing, condition, place, life, word, tree, or land.
The feminine singular and its Quranic plural طَيِّبَات apply the quality to varied things and circumstances; the precise English rendering follows the noun being qualified.
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Selected Quran examples
Lawful and acceptable good things, especially provision, food, drink, or gain.
Used in legal and dietary contexts for what is permitted as well as wholesome or esteemed good.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:172word 6
“(the) good”
Quran 5:4word 8
“the good things”
Morally pure or commendable persons, including good women or good offspring.
In the reciprocal expression الطَّيِّبَاتُ لِلطَّيِّبِينَ, the adjective may be understood of morally good persons as well as of good things, depending on the interpretation of the passage.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:26word 5
“And good women”
Quran 3:38word 12
“pure”
طُوبَىٰ
ṭūbāā
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Blessedness, good fortune, a good final state, divine favor, or a pleasant and enduring life.
In طُوبَىٰ لَهُمْ, it is an announcement or invocation of a favorable final condition and blessed outcome.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 13:29word 5
“blessedness”
The tree of Paradise, or by a reported interpretation, Paradise itself.
This is an interpretive referent for طُوبَىٰ in the Quranic expression; other explanations understand the word as the blessed state described in the preceding sense.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 13:29word 5
“blessedness”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:57طَيِّبَـٰتِ(the) good things
- 2:168طَيِّبًۭا(and) good
- 2:172طَيِّبَـٰتِ(the) good
- 2:267طَيِّبَـٰتِ(the) good things
- 3:38طَيِّبَةً ۖpure
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 37 Classical meanings
طَابَ
To become abundant in herbage, said of land.
A figurative or extended use of the Form I verb for fertile, luxuriant ground.
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طَيَّبَ
To make or render good, pleasant, fragrant, pure, or clean; to perfume or daub with perfume.
Form II transitive use, applied to persons, things, garments, and other objects.
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طَيَّبَ
To soothe or placate someone, making the person pleased, content, or reconciled.
A figurative Form II use with the mind or النفس as its object or affected state.
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طَيَّبَ
To make lawful or to relinquish, remit, or acquit someone of a claim.
A Form II causative or figurative use, including remission of part of a debt or property.
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طَايَبَ
To jest, joke, or indulge in pleasantry with someone.
Form III reciprocal or interpersonal use.
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أَطْيَبَ
To bring forward, offer, or proffer good, pleasant, or savory food.
A Form IV use concerning the presentation of food.
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أَطْيَبَ
To speak good, pleasant, or sweet words.
A figurative Form IV use concerning speech.
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أَطْيَبَ
To beget good children.
A figurative Form IV use describing offspring.
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أَطْيَبَ
To wed lawfully.
A reported figurative Form IV use connected with lawful marriage.
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تَطَيَّبَ
To become good or pleasant, or to perfume oneself and make oneself fragrant.
Form V use, especially with perfume or another fragrant substance.
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اِسْتَطَابَ
To find or perceive something as good, pleasant, or agreeable.
Form X evaluative use, including finding rain or another experience pleasant.
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اِسْتَطَابَ
To cleanse oneself after defecation by washing or wiping the place of exit.
A specialized Form X purification use, also expressed with the النفس in some formulations.
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اِسْتَطَابَ
To shave the pubic hair.
A specialized bodily-grooming use of Form X.
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اِسْتَطَابَ
To ask for sweet or pleasant water.
A specialized Form X use in which the desired quality is sweet water.
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اِسْتَطَابَ
To drink wine.
A rare specialized use reported for the Form X verb.
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طَابٌ
Goodness, pleasantness, or excellent quality.
A substantivized verbal noun and epithet distinct in form from طِيبٌ and طَيِّبٌ.
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طَابٌ
A named variety of palm, dates, or fresh ripe dates associated with Medina.
A lexicalized agricultural and regional name.
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طَابٌ
A reported epithet of the Prophet in the Gospel, interpreted as very good in disposition.
A rare reported proper-name expression; the cited entry does not identify its location in the Gospel.
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طِيبٌ
Goodness, pleasantness, or agreeable quality.
Used as a simple noun, apart from its separate sense of perfume.
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طِيبٌ
Perfume or another fragrant, odoriferous substance used for scenting.
A concrete noun for an aromatic substance.
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طِيبٌ
The most excellent or choice part of a kind of thing.
A substantivized evaluative use.
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طَابَةٌ
Wine; alternatively, expressed juice.
The two explanations are reported for this lexicalized feminine noun.
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طَيْبَةُ
A name of Medina, the city of the Prophet.
A proper name, distinct in vocalization and lexical identity from the adjective طَيِّبَةٌ.
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طِيبَةٌ
Goodness or pleasantness, as the verbal noun of طَابَ.
This form also has specialized concrete and proper-name uses listed separately.
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طِيبَةٌ
The clearest or best wine, or the choicest herbage.
A specialized evaluative use applied to wine and vegetation.
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طِيبَةُ
A name of the well Zamzam.
A proper name with a distinct final vowel from the verbal noun طِيبَةٌ.
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طِيَبَةٌ
A lawfully captured person or group of captives, taken without treachery or breach of covenant.
A specialized expression in سَبْيٌ طِيَبَةٌ; it is not simply the ordinary adjective طَيِّبَةٌ.
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طِيَابٌ
A kind of palm tree of al-Basrah, known for the behavior of its ripe dates.
A regional agricultural name.
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طَيِّبٌ
Of noble birth, chaste, good-natured, affable, or cheerful in mind.
These are specialized personal and social applications of the adjective, not restrictions on its broader Quranic uses.
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طُيَّابٌ
Very good, pleasant, delicious, sweet, or agreeable.
An intensive adjective, also used of very good-tasting water.
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أَطْيَبُ
Better or best, more or most pleasant, delicious, sweet, pure, or clean.
The comparative or superlative adjective, with طُوبَىٰ reported as its feminine form in one analysis.
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الأَطْيَبَانِ
A conventional dual expression variously referring to eating and sexual intercourse, sleep and intercourse, or other paired sources of bodily pleasure.
The sources report several traditional interpretations; the expression is idiomatic rather than a general dual restriction on أطيب.
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أَطَايِبُ
The best or choicest parts of something, such as meat, dates, or herbage.
A plural noun used with the thing from which the choice portions are taken.
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أَيْطَبَّةُ العَنْزِ
A she-goat’s lusting for the male.
A rare lexicalized expression, explained through transposition in the cited entry.
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مُطِيبٌ
A lawful wedder or man engaging in lawful marriage.
The active participle of Form IV in a rare specialized use.
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مَطْيَبَةٌ
A cause of pleasure or delight, especially a beverage or food that pleases the soul.
A noun of means or effect applied to something pleasant to consume.
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مُطَيَّبٌ
A member of the مُطَيَّبُون, the groups associated with the covenant of the perfumed men.
A historical collective designation derived from the Form II passive participle and the ritual use of perfume in the covenant.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public طَيِّبَةٌ entry combines the feminine singular adjective with its Quranic plural طَيِّبَات; occurrence_count therefore aggregates both supplied QAC groups.
طُوبَىٰ has both an abstract interpretation of blessedness or good outcome and reported concrete interpretations referring to the tree of Paradise or Paradise itself.